[Hahahaha, Wen Feiran really does pass by every piece of gossip in the world.]
Chapter 18: Kill Him!!
After Wen Feiran changed, he noticed Zou Yuxing's strange expression. He paused for a few seconds, then looked down and tugged at his shirt. "Does it look weird?"
Zou Yuxing waved his hands frantically. "Not weird at all. You look really good in it."
He felt so guilty that he didn't dare look Wen Feiran in the eye. He might as well have had "something's on my mind" written on his face.
Wen Feiran frowned slightly. "Are you hiding something from me?"
Zou Yuxing didn't want to bury his head in the sand. He was about to come clean, but then he shut his open mouth again.
He hadn't finished what he was saying earlier, so maybe no one had noticed anything was wrong. If he came clean now, wouldn't that indirectly bring the whole thing out into the open? That would be what hurt Feiran!
"Nothing." Zou Yuxing looked around, desperate to check the news online, but unfortunately, they were surviving on a deserted island and couldn't have electronic devices.
His gaze wandered around twice before he said unconvincingly, "You really do look good in that shirt. This is our team uniform now."
Wen Feiran looked down at Su Shangting's image printed on his shirt and fell silent for a long time.
"Let's hurry and find some other Treasure Chests. There might be a change of clothes inside." Afraid Zou Yuxing would get sulky, Wen Feiran patted him gently on the shoulder. "Don't go out of your way to provoke Shangting. You won't have an easy time of it if he gets angry, and besides..."
Wen Feiran's long pause nearly made Zou Yuxing's guilty heart stop. "W-what?"
"Weren't you scared just now too?" Wen Feiran struggled to hold back a smile. "Otherwise, why did you look so guilty?"
Zou Yuxing: "..."
Realizing Wen Feiran had misunderstood, Zou Yuxing let out a long sigh of relief and held his fingers a grain of rice apart. "Just this much."
Wen Feiran had long since seen through the pair of sworn enemies. They didn't really hold grudges against each other; they were more like two people who often bickered and roughhoused.
"Let's go. We shouldn't waste any more time." When Wen Feiran turned his head, he exposed his bright red ears. With his back to the camera, his expression was unnatural too.
Ahhh, that was so embarrassing.
Get away from this river, quick. I'm going to develop a fear of water.
The two walked on in silence, each lost in his own thoughts. Neither spoke, but the livestream chat was lively.
[Hahaha, Wen Feiran, you're really good at making excuses for him. His guilt and fear have nothing to do with Su Shangting.]
[Don't go! Hurry up and explain why you were there! Did Lin Lin lose the baby? Can she still marry into a wealthy family?]
[Maybe Zou Yuxing saw wrong and misled everyone. Don't jump on the bandwagon.]
[How could he be wrong? I specifically compared the photos just now. It's definitely Wen Feiran!]
Related topics immediately shot up the trending searches. The names of the three people involved appeared again and again, and a tech expert even compared photos of the mysterious man and Wen Feiran, confirming beyond doubt that they were the same person.
The number of viewers in the livestream soared again, and the comments kept pouring in. Unfortunately, Wen Feiran couldn't see them and was completely unaware of the impending crisis.
Only after more than ten minutes had passed did he get his emotions under control and turn his attention to the task.
The Treasure Chests probably weren't that easy to find. Otherwise, no one would bother with the task stations, which would go against the production team's design principles.
"Let's look carefully, especially in the hidden corners," Wen Feiran said.
Zou Yuxing was still distracted. When he heard that, he said "Huh?" before nodding.
He hurried ahead. Wen Feiran watched his back in confusion, a strange feeling rising in his heart.
Unable to make sense of it, he put the minor matter aside, turned around, and pushed the weeds apart.
A red-and-white Treasure Chest abruptly appeared before him.
"..."
He hurriedly called Zou Yuxing over, and Zou Yuxing looked just as incredulous.
Wen Feiran made excuses for the production team. "It was hidden behind the weeds, so it was pretty well concealed and hard to spot."
Zou Yuxing nodded along and casually pushed aside the weeds next to him, which were as tall as a person. "That's how hard it is."
Wen Feiran really didn't know how to respond. He bent down and picked up the Treasure Chest. It contained only food and first aid supplies, not the T-shirt he had been hoping for.
Zou Yuxing comforted him, saying it was fine and they could keep looking.
The two continued down the path. When Wen Feiran looked up, he found one in a tree; when he looked down, he found one behind a rock; when he glanced around, he found another in the weeds. He even accidentally found one in a gully while tying his shoelaces. The frequency was outrageous, while Zou Yuxing searched nonstop but still hadn't found a single one.
Zou Yuxing wiped the sweat from his face with his arm and gave Wen Feiran a meaningful look up and down. "Your luck is way too good. You can just stumble across Treasure Chests."
Wen Feiran had offered an explanation at first, but when he was holding the fifth Treasure Chest, he fell silent and looked up at the sky.
Could the production team have told me where the Treasure Chests were in private? No, that's not right. I don't remember anything like that... Was it hypnosis? Did they plant it directly in my subconscious?
Wen Feiran believed in science and didn't think the production team would go to such lengths over something so trivial. He scratched his forehead sheepishly. "Maybe my luck is just better today."
The viewers in the livestream were still frantically discussing the gossip, but they couldn't resist when they saw this. They switched to worshipping the koi, hoping to get a share of his good luck.
Wen Feiran and Zou Yuxing had found enough Treasure Chests that they didn't need to do any tasks, but the other two groups weren't so fortunate.
Guan Yunning and Su Shangting were on a team. Su Shangting had a young master's temper and was too difficult to deal with. He ignored the task, so Guan Yunning could only bite the bullet and do it himself. But he happened to be physically inept too, and only barely succeeded after a great deal of suffering. Both of them had to pass to get the reward, so he could only grit his teeth and beg Su Shangting, even resorting to moral blackmail.
Su Shangting threw a long tantrum before he tried, only to fall straight into a mud pit. After the "green trash can," he had acquired a "mud man" skin.